Tony LaScala
Monday, January 09, 2012, 8:14 AM
Freelance Writer
Articles by Tony LaScala :
- The Re-Re-Write and The Writer’s Diet
- The Office: Season 8 Finale
- New Girl: Season 1 Finale
- The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel: It's Never Too Late
- The Writer’s Path: Success Through Failure
- Bernie: Empathizing With A Murderer
- Pulling All Nighters and Recharging Your Brain
- Jesus Henry Christ: Indie Film Failure
- American Reunion: A Nostalgic Slice of the Pie
- The Writer's Fight Against Technology
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Outlining: How Much Is Too Much
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Script Tips
Okay, so you've done the hard work and outlined your screenplay. You devoted the necessary time to create complex characters, and you labored to develop a detailed story; however, you didn't know when to stop. You tweaked it, and tweaked it, eventually even trashed it, outlining again, and again, and again. But why? Because you wanted to make your outline perfect. Big mistake. An outline is a comprehensive guide – an essential part of the process - and many would argue the most important part, but by no means is it some magic recipe that is structurally perfect. There…
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Children
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Genre
Children’s Film is a genre of film aimed at entertaining young audiences. The Children genre is usually rated G, and has simplistic content that is age-appropriate. As with the Family genre, children films cover a wide array of topics and can fall into multiple genres – such as adventure and musicals. Most often, this genre incorporates fantasy elements and plays on the possibility that imagination holds. Many films in this genre are animated and serve an educational purpose. The majority of Children’s films will demonstrate some kind of moral message, cautionary…
